The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-11

the pride of her parents and the adored OBJ
]ect of young saint" who sought her
hand and heart, she fell in love with a Gen
tile, lawyer, at the time resident of Salt
Lake. Her love was reciprocated, and in
their stolen interviews they pledged them
selves-as lovers have ever done-to be true
TO death.
AS marriage in the City of Saints was
an impossibility, the young couple deter
mined to elope, and elope they did, fleeing
to California. The elopement was discov-
ed soon after their fight, and a resolute
band OF Mormon boys, armed, and on fleet
horses, pursued the infatuated twain, deter
mined to rescue a flower of the church from
the polluted touch of the hated Gentle.
But the hunt was in vain The gallant
disciple of Blackstone distanced his fierce
pursuers, and thus escaped being served
with an illegal and peremptory habeas cor
pus. The scandal at the time created
great sensation among the Mormons, as the
elopement of Mormon girl with a Gentle
was rare thing in those days, and it shocked
and grieved the whole community.
Armies father being leading member
of the church, the trusted friend and adj
wiser of the then Great Mogul, Brigham
Y Dung, made the elopement all the more
scandalous. When the runaway couple
found themselves safely beyond the bounda-
ries of the sanity Zion, they drew breath
of relief, for, had the lawyer been captured,
he would certainly have been shot to death
instantly by his Infatuated pursuers, while
Annie would have been brought back TO be
in time the reigning mistress of some
wealthy Mormons harem.
But before long the lawyer husband
changed to the legal Lothario, and the cup
and the gambling table did the rest To
make long story short, Annie Taylor found
herself all alone in the great city of San
Francisco with only few hundred dollars
She took elegant apartments in large
lodging house on Kearny street.
Soon afterward Annie made the acquaint-
| ance of rowing Baptist preacher, who, tax
ing advantage of his sacred calling, played
| the hypocrite with consummate tact. He
wooed Annie Taylor aud finally won her,
and both were married in this city. The
honeymoon had scarcely waned before he dis
played his true colors. He got possession of
what little money his wife had, and then
commenced life of debauchery. A divorce
quickly followed, and again the deceived
| and betrayed wife found herself all alone in
the wicked world.
This time she was compelled to give up her
elegant rooms on Kearny street and dlsap-
peared mysteriouSly, seeking seclusion in
some side street or alley, where she thought
she could never meet any one who had
known her history
While in this secusion it is known that
she married for the third time, and her
third venture was even more unfortunate
than the two preceding ones. Her husband
proved to be a depraved opium fiend, and
nature at last abhorring his sight extended
her mercies by putting an end to him.
Thus for the third time the ''Widow
Annie Taylor" as some call her, stands
isolated and alone.
Annie has a sister by the same mother in
Salt Lake whom she idOliZeS and to this
sister, and to her only, has she ever COM
municated her whereabouts.
1t is strange, too, that the sister in Salt
Lake eloped some years ago with Gentle,
but she was captured, brought back and
afterward married prominent Mormon.